Peculiar geography

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From Miles and Wood’s About Time, vol. 3, p. 23, discussing the fictional British space programme:

… the logical place for launch and landing would have been as close to the Equator as possible, perhaps British Colombia [sic] or Uganda.

I suspect they mean British Honduras, now Belize. The southern end of British Columbia is closer to the Equator than the mainland of the UK, but not by very much!

[ETA: as and point out, British Guyana is more likely being only just north of the Equator. My excuse for not thinking of it is that it had officially become just “Guyana” since 1966 while British Honduras didn’t become Belize until 1973.]

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  1. Chris ‘Deadbeat/Kingpin’ Jury was up for the role of the Doctor itself in 1987, or so I’ve read. Greatest Show was my favourite of that season when it went out – and while I enjoyed Remembrance it doesn’t manage to convey a sense of period, partly because there are too many 1980s buildings and cars about.

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